Posted in news and opinion, tagged african union, botswana, darfur, genocide, icc, international criminal court, omar al-bashir, south africa, sudan on July 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The African Union (AU) has decided to denounce the International Criminal Court (ICC) for indicting Omar Al-Bashir for “crimes against humanity”. This implies that
AU members “shall not cooperate” with the court in The Hague.
Al-Bashir is free to travel to any African country without fear of arrest.
Initially Botswana and South Africa had publicly stated that [...]
Posted in news and opinion, tagged darfur, genocide, sudan, unamid, UN, african union, women on April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
African Union – UN hybrid peacekeeping mission UNAMID has teamed up with the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) to push a new initiative aimed at empowering the women of Darfur.
Efforts will go towards achieving gender equality – both politically and economically – and putting an end to sexual and gender-based violence.
It is important for us [...]
Posted in news and opinion, tagged darfur, genocide, sudan, unamid, UN, african union on March 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
News coming out of Darfur has been pretty dire recently (and rightly so given the current situation). With story after story of violence and suffering, it is hard to imagine that any “good” is taking place in the region.
However, there is “good” in Darfur. Consider this -
Today, UNAMID airlifted examination supplies to various secondary schools [...]
Posted in news and opinion, tagged darfur, genocide, sudan, unamid, jem, peacekeeping, african union, rebel group, libya, moammar gadhafi on February 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As expected, the Darfur town of Muhajiriya is now in the hands of the Sudanese army.
Rebel group Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) left Muhajiriya in an effort to prevent further fighting from impacting the town’s 30,000 residents.
UNAMID peacekeepers remained in the town – also for the sake of protecting residents.
In other news, Libyan leader and new [...]
Posted in news and opinion, tagged darfur, ny times, genocide, sudan, nicholas kristof, unamid, us, george bush, UN, african union, salva kiir on January 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
US President George Bush has ordered an airlift of much needed (and much delayed) equipment to the UN-African Union mission (UNAMID) trying to hold pieces together in Darfur.
According to US National Security advisor Stephen Hadley, the airlift will “help UNAMID directly protect civilian lives and improve the safe and effective delivery of lifesaving humanitarian aid”.
Certainly [...]
Posted in news and opinion, tagged african union, condoleezza rice, darfur, genocide, sudan, UN, us on December 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In November, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice expressed “real regrets” about the way her country handled the Darfur atrocities.
This week, Sudan Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ali Al-Sadig “taunted” Rice and her recent statements:
Our regret goes for the inability of a major country to assist the African Union and the United Nations to deploy troops in [...]
